New look PICME goes from strength to strength

PICME has refreshed its four year old corporate identity with a new look that is intended to enable expansion into additional markets with the newly created services

The Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence, PICME, has refreshed its four year old corporate identity with a new look that is intended to help its expansion into additional markets and newly created services.

Mike Aitken, Business Development Manager at PICME says that 'the original impetus for PICME and its creation came from the chemicals sector and was nurtured into being by the Chemical Industries Association.

It was only natural that the original corporate identity reflect that genesis in the form of a molecular based logo.

Four years on, however, and much of our business is with clients in other markets - in food and drink, packaging, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, plastic mouldings and other areas.

For these customers, a chemical-based identity does not convey the whole story.

We have accordingly redesigned a 'process flow" circle' or 'target' logo which reflects the workshop-based work that our engineers do at client level - namely, helping to create a mutually reinforcing confidence among multi-skilled teams while pursuing set targets for productivity improvement'.

With the client, PICME engineers select tools from a variety of systems - eg Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and TQM in order to inspire the practical results in the teams.

Mark Lewis, PICME chief executive says that 'our passion is to assist companies on their journey to manufacturing excellence and our approach is a practical one of learning though doing.

I am sure that our new logo will help reinforce our appeal and our working practices throughout all our target markets.

Since its inception in 2000 PICME has helped these client companies secure savings of over GBP140 million.

Examples of these client benefits through improved manufacturing methods include:.

* increased output of between 10%-100%.

* reduced waste of between 10%-80%.

* reduced changeovers/clean-down times of between 40%-80%.

* reduced lead times and stock of between 50%-75%.

PICME initiatives for the near future include:.

* Collaboration with Crystal Faraday on a diagnostic tool called MIDAS designed to analyse multi-stage batch processes to determine whether there is a need to optimise the process or research new technology to improve performance.

* Work with Food processing Faraday, supported by Yorkshire Forward, benchmarking local food processing companies to assist them in reviewing both their position in lean manufacturing and needs for new technology.

* Practical industry supply chains work to show how this can improve overall responsiveness in the sector.

* Development of a plant maintenance Masterclass to address this key issue for lean operations in process sector.

* Development of training modules and courses in lean manufacturing for the process industries.

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